The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House pair.
The Square
- WRENN ID
- keen-buttress-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House pair
- Address
- The Square, 17a and 17b, High Street, Wingham
- OS grid reference
- TR 243 572
- Coordinates
- 51.27029, 1.21488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Square is a pair of houses dating from the late 17th century. They are built of plum brick, with some weatherboard, and have a plain tiled roof. The buildings are two storeys high with an attic, featuring corbelled brick eaves that slope to the roof, which includes two hipped dormers and stacks positioned to the centre left and right. On the first floor, there are two wooden casement windows, and there are also two on the ground floor, all with cambered heads. To the left is a half-glazed door, and to the right is a door with six raised and fielded panels, both of which have raking hoods. The right section has weatherboarding on the first floor and a gable with a kneelered parapet. Inside, there are inglenook fireplaces with coving and stop-chamfered beams.
Local climate
The Square sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
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